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Malawi Law Society (MLS) has expressed optimism that the Judicial Service and Administration Bill 2023 (JSA) and the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill 2023 will finally be tabled and passed during the July 2024 meeting of Parliament. MLS president Patrick Mpaka said this follows the submission of input from the Judiciary which was standing in the way

Last month, Minister of Justice TITUS MVALO led a delegation to the Johannesburg Arbitration Week (JAW) in South Africa which was hosted by the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (Afsa). During the event 10 African countries signed and adopted the Afsa Alliance Charter which will facilitate the establishment of a regional seat of international arbitration

Ministry of Justice has once again come under the spotlight with the Malawi Law Society (MLS) and civil society organisations (CSOs) accusing it of choking justice by delaying tabling of Judiciary Bills in Parliament. The Judicial Service Administration (JSA) Bill, among others, has provisions that would promote transparency and accountability in the appointment, execution of

The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has expressed its worry over delays in tabling the constitution (Amendment) Bill alongside the service administration bills, sayin

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Political and legal experts have advised political parties to carefully bargain and agree on trusted electoral alliances ahead of the September 16 2025 General Elections to avoid getting raw deals. Speaking in separate interviews yesterday amid lack of a binding legal framework on electoral alliances or coalitions, political and legal pundits argued that regulating alliances

Two of the country ’s prominent legal minds have faulted the Malawi Law Society (MLS) for proposing criminalising unfulfilled election campaign promises, saying the move is akin to seeking legal solutions to a political problem. In its communiqué dated March 24 issued at the end of the 2024 annual conference, MLS said criminalising politicians’ campaign

Debate has ensued on the status of President Lazarus Chakwera’s withholding of delegated powers to Vice-President Saulos Chilima after dispatching him to represent the country at the 60th Anniversary of the Union Day for Tanzania. The decision comes two years after the President, in a June 2022 national address, announced the withholding of “any delegated

The political and campaign financing regulatory regime has come under scrutiny amid observations that for 30 years there has been zero implementation, making the electoral democracy framework to gravitate towards kleptocracy. In an analysis by governance expert Henry Chingaipe at the recent Malawi Law Society (MLS) conference, it is noted that lack of implementation of

Malawi Law Society (MLS) and 10 other law societies from Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have signed an alliance charter with the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (Afsa) Sadc Division. The charter seeks to facilitate the establishment of a regional seat of International Arbitration. MLS president Patrick Mpaka said yesterday in an interview that the